The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-02-26

Tee. real estate in Reisterstown.
Tuesday, March I'D, by p. G: Hawkins, auctlon-
eer, real estate in 7th dlstrlct, pelohgns " 'he
heirs of Eli Kidd.
The March term of the Circuit Court COM
mences the first Monday of the month, the 9TH.
IF George Washington had been alive on
Tuesday last he would have been 81 years old.
Tuesday next is the first day OF March and
the opening of spring may be reckoned from that
time.
Baltimore county, has taken out a trade mark on
pharmaceutical preparations.
Good timothy hay sold in Baltimore on
Wednesday at from So to Sl1 per ton. Some lots
of wheat straw brought 81 per ton.
The next meeting of the Baltimore County
Orange rrin 80 hcld in baltimore, Tuesday
March Sth, commencing at 1890 a. m.
-Congressman Shaw has filed a petition at
the Postofice Department for the establishment
of a postofiice at Myersvie, Baltimore county.
"A literary and debating society has been
organized at Greenwood school house, 18th dis
trict, and meetings are held every Friday night.
The County Commissioners this week re-
annointed R. E. Cole, 9th district, and j. b.
Councilman 18th district constables, each for two
years.
"A new lodge of the knights of Pythias, to
be known as Welcome Lodge, No. lO7, was instl-
tuted at Randallstown, I'd district, on Friday
night of last week.
Thomas r. FRESHMAN, member OF the
bar and son of the late George Freshman, OF
Baltimore county, died at his residence in Balti-
more, on 10th instant.
The postofice called Western Run, estab-
lished some time ago at Willow Mill, on the
Western Run turnpike, has been discontinued for
want of q postmaster.
On Sunday morning last passenger train
on the B. & o. extension jumped the track near
Bradshaw station, caused by the spreading OF the
rails but no one was hurt.
The Comptroller of the Currency at Wash
ington has approved the First National Bank OF
Baltimore, as revenue agent for the Towson Ma
tional Bank of Towsontown.
The Annual Conference of the NJ. E. Church
will be held in High Street Church, Baltimore,
commencing Thursday next, March 3D. Bishop
Thomas Bowman will preside
Persons living in the county and driving
10 Baltimore are not required to take out licenses
for their vehicles in the city, Only persons living
in the city are required to take out licenses for
their vehicles.
During the thunder storm on Friday after
noon of last week the house of Mr.. James McLaugh-
lin, on Willow avenue, near Cold Spring, was
struck by lightning and slightly damaged. No
one was injured.
Mrs. Raborg, wife of DIR. Julius Raborg,
who lived in the Brady mansion, in WaVerly, died
Sunday night last, after a lingering illness from
cancer. She was 3S years of age and native Of
Chester county, Pa.
Mr.. George P. Everhart, who has been
president of the Shrewsbury Savings Institution
for nearly eleven years, has resigned and removed
to Hampden, Baltimore county, where he propo-
ses to engage in business.
This year the moon is the reigning planet
According to the ancient belief, when the moon
ruled among the planets the earth was most pro-
life in crops of all kinds. If this be SO harvests
will be abundant this year.
Some of the members of the petit jury OF
the December term of the Circuit Court made
over fifty days and drew per diem more
than $I25 each. The term was an unusually long
one. 1t required about $4,000 to pay the jury:
What have believers in the ground hog
theory got to say now? 1t has either rained or
showed pretty nearly every day since the I'd OF
the month, Notwithstanding the fact that the
ground hog didn't see his shadow on that day.
Mr. Lewis Dawson, who for nearly nine
teen years has managed the Perine farm at Co.
vanstown, will leave that position on March LIST,
to take charge of the farm near Glen Morris, Wes-
tern Maryland Railroad, which he bought some
time ago.
burned about three weeks ago. will receive 81 200
from the Hartford company, in which it was in
sured. About year ago she received 81, 700 from
the same company for the loss of her house on
the same farm.
1t is said that the canning business in Har-
ford county, after long depression, is again
looking up and that this year there will be large
increase of packers over last season, many OF
those who suspended business three years ago in
tending to resume.
Mr.. Jacob NJ. Wilhelm, member OF the
present petit Jury from the 5th district left his
overcoat in the reading-roo of Wheeler's Hotel
one day this week, while he went to dinner. When
he returned the coat was missing and nothing has
been heard of it since.
The "BeIt Democratic Club was organ
lied in the lower section of the 9th district on
Wednesday night, with Mr.. John M. Littig, pres
ident Mr.. John H. Wight, vice president, and
s. E. Cuttings, secretary. The organization already
has seventy members.
This is what an exchange has to say about
a hustle: "When you see something in a window
that cannot by any possibility be of any use on
anybody's figure, that can't keep anything warm
or fit anywhere, you may know it is portion oil
a woman's costume"
Thomas NJ. Owings, member Of the 0wings
family after which Owings' Mills, Baltimore coun-
ty, took its name, died suddenly in Baltimore, on
Tuesday, of heart disease, in the SD year of his
age. He was a cousin of Mr.. Jas. Winchester
Owings, of Towsontown.
The free lunch fiend, who travels about the
country attending all-day public sales, is having
q picnic just now. He goes from sale to
another and eats about four times as much as an
ordinary man and never buys o dollars worth
He ought to be muzzled.
Mr.. John B. Dempsey, for twenty years a
clerk in the Clerks Office of the Court of Common
Pleas, Baltimore, died on Tuesday, of consump-
ton, aged 40 years. He was nephew of ex-
Sheriff Samuel F. Butler, of Towsontown, and was
well known in the county.